WELL?

Does anyone know?

What about a "Sniff-kisk-a-tory"?

An "Ooja-flip"

FOR GODS SAKE TELL ME!!!

I always thought Spondoolics was a slang term for money, unless I have been wrong all these years.

Haven't a clue about the others though.

I saw a dog licking its spondoolics the other day. I said to its owner "I wish I could do that" only for him to say "Give him a stroke and he might just let you".....

I used to work with a bloke whose entire conversation was littered with these slang words, I used to smile and nod politely as he talked to me, but in reality I didnt understand a bloody word he was saying.

I'd say that was money too...

I'd say that was money too...

Yes but what about "Sniff-kisk-a-tory"?

Do you know what one of those is? Do you have one?

May I ... see it...?



Just turned myself on...

Spondoolics is cash. Ooja flip means any old thing - like a thingammy jig I think.

Yes but what about "Sniff-kisk-a-tory"?

Do you know what one of those is? Do you have one?

May I ... see it...?



Just turned myself on...

hahaha if i have one that I'm not sure what or where it is...

hahaha if i have one that I'm not sure what or where it is...

you can always have a google:o

you can always have a google:o

I'm intrigued to know what it is now...hmmm

Spondoolics is cash. Ooja flip means any old thing - like a thingammy jig I think.

nah - an ooja (mi) flip is a completely different kind of undefined thing to a thingamy jig :hihi:

ooja ma flip was the word we used as kids

"San Ferry Anne" anyone?

I remember an old bloke saying it back in the 80s, someone asked him a question and he said that....

Ive heared since that it used to be a popular saying once upon a time but isnt used much now because ....


Erm...

God knows...

san ferry ann is a very loose approximation of a french phrase I believe - possibly sans faire rien. However, I dont really know what it means. Hope this helps

"San Ferry Anne" anyone?

I remember an old bloke saying it back in the 80s, someone asked him a question and he said that....

Ive heared since that it used to be a popular saying once upon a time but isnt used much now because ....


Erm...

God knows...

This one I do know. My grandfather used to say it.

Q. What's the meaning and derivation of 'San Ferry Ann'? Apart from
anything else it happens to be the title of a song by Paul
McCartney. [John Cooper, Bermuda]

A. When the British Tommy arrived in France to fight in the First
World War, he was presented with a language he struggled to make
sense of. What he did to the pronunciation of French and Belgian
place names is a wonder, such as turning Ypres into Wipers. He
picked up a lot of French expressions, but he changed them into
something that sounded English. This was the fate of 'ca ne fait
rien', "it does not matter", which became a British Army catch
phrase in that war as an expression of resigned - or cynical -
acceptance of some state of affairs, usually brought about by
bungling officers. One English version of it was the one you quote,
others were 'san fairy anna' and even 'send for Mary Ann', though
perhaps 'san fairy ann' was the most common. It largely fell out of
use after the War, and seems not to have been taken up by
servicemen in the Second World War.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005a&L=worldwidewords&P=91

"San Ferry Anne" anyone?

I remember an old bloke saying it back in the 80s, someone asked him a question and he said that....

Ive heared since that it used to be a popular saying once upon a time but isnt used much now because ....


Erm...

God knows...


It's a corruption of "ca ne fait rien". It's usually taken to mean "it's nothing" or "Don't mention it".

Excellent stuff!

I was close! without the aid of googling. lol

Found this :
SPONDULICKS, SPONDOOLICKS - "n money, wealth. A lighthearted term which was obsolescent by the 1960s (having originated in the USA in the 1850s), but which like other synonyms for money was revived in the 1980s (compare 'rhino,' 'pelf,' etc.). It originated as a learned witticism, borrowing the Greek term, 'spondylikos; pertaining to the 'spondylos,' a seashell used as currency." From the "Dictionary of Contemporary Slang" by Tony Thorne (Pantheon Books, New York, 1990).

A better speculation : "spondu^los" had the primary meaning "vertebra" more or less, and it also meant "tambour" or "drum", i.e., one of the discs or cylinders stacked up to make a pillar in old times ... in other words it had the sense "one of a stack of discs/cylinders". By comparison, at least one book defined "spondulics" in 1867 specifically as "coin piled for counting".

Also, from Michael Quinion :

"Though many of these British Army slang terms of the period were imported from India, oojah has no known origin. If it did come from that country, nobody can tell from what word in which language."

I wonder if Sniff-kisk-a-tory has origins there then...


Abdul: Dont go near that lake.

Mohammed: Why not?

Abdul: Theres a bloody great Sniff-kisk-a-tory living in it!


I remember people using Sniff-kisk-a-tory instead of certain words they couldnt remember, those tip of the tongue words.

"Lets go to the shop for a nice...erm.. you know.... Sniff-kisk-a-tory".

How about :

doodah, doohickey, gizmo, gubbins, thingumabob, thingamajig, doobry, doofer .............

Even at my age my dad still sometimes asks me to pass him a slitherens clitherens or a slimtrackygrowback and I aint got a clue what it is but my mum always seems to know even though its always something different :rolleyes:

"San Ferry Anne" anyone?

I remember an old bloke saying it back in the 80s, someone asked him a question and he said that....

Ive heared since that it used to be a popular saying once upon a time but isnt used much now because ....


Erm...

God knows...

My understanding of it has always been "Sweet F A" er "Nothing"

What about a Sniff-kisk-a-tory please?

Ca ne fait rien

Like my father in wartime France asked for "douey erfs and pomme de frights" (in a yorkshire accent of course) to order "egg and chips twice", San Fairy Ann was an english bastardisation of "it doesn't matter"

It also went with Sweet FA, which I suppose "It doesn't matter" could be the same as "It means sweet FA"

And now I notice that the question has been answered earlier, "San Fairy Ann" to this post I suppose :D

I always thought it was "Ooja-ma-flip" or "Ooja-ma-bob" like "thinga-mi-bob"

I regularly have conversations something like those involving a request for a "doo-dah", a response "no but I have an oojah-bahj will that do the thingy you wanted the wotsit for" and strangely (worryingly) both parties understand completely

How about :

doodah, doohickey, gizmo, gubbins, thingumabob, thingamajig, doobry, doofer .............

doodah, doohickey, thingumabob, and thingamajig are all whotsits, ie items you currently cannot locate the whatsitcalled for, otherwise known as the missing name.
Gizmo refers to all of the above but the errant item is in addition of a mechanical or technical nature, ie it is a machine with parts........
Gubbins are the those parts the individual names of which you may be a mite hazy about, that came out of the thingamubob, the internal workings of any machine [or thingamubob, or gizmo are the gubbins.

Doobry and doofer are like doohah, doohickies, thingumabobs and thingamajigs [thingamajii?] except that the they have the secondary meaning as terms for a cylinder of wacky backy aka the spliff.



phew :suspect::)